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Creep-a-Day Challenge Day 21

Halloween
Tic-Tac-Toe

Stalemate!!

I
have made a few checkers games for people using bottle caps, photos of them or
their children, and a special UV resin, but I never made one for myself. With
this month’s challenge, I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on the resin, so
I decided to make a fun Tic-Tac-Toe game using bottle caps and domed stickers.

Supplies:

6x6
wooden square

Black
acrylic paint

Your
favorite paper tape (I used Tim Holtz® tissue tape)

Glossy
Accents™

Bottle
caps (12 total)

Scrapbook
paper in opposing colors and/or patterns

Domed
stickers (12 total)

Waxed
paper

Felt

Tools:

The goods

Paint
brush

Palette

A
quarter

Pencil

Scissors

The
How:

Not the neatest painter

I
started off painting the wooden square first so I could make the playing pieces
while it dried. Time management is a good thing! I made sure to paint the top
and sides of the square but left the bottom unpainted because that would end up
being covered in felt anyway.

They fit! Yayyyy!

To
see how big of a circle I needed for the bottle cap, I fitted a quarter into it
and it fit perfectly. That became my template. While the first coat of paint
dried, I traced my quarter onto green spiderweb scrapbook paper so I ended up
with six circles. I cut out each circle and dry-fitted them into the bottle
cap. Perfect fits.

Adding those squiggles

Next,
I removed the circles and put a squiggle of Glossy Accents into each bottle
cap. I placed a paper circle over each, patterned side up, smoothing out any
air bubbles then let them all dry a few minutes.

I
repeated the same steps with the orange spiderweb paper.

They look like pieces of candy...

With
everything glued in place, I put a domed sticker over each paper circle and
pressed down firmly.

The pieces were done!

I
painted a second coat on the wooden square and set it aside to dry.

More squiggles

With
the board dry, I flipped it over and added Glossy Accents to the unpainted
side. I used my index finger to smooth out the glue. Carefully, I positioned
the felt patterned side up and smoothed it down. I set it aside to dry.

Is that felt??? It is now!

Once
it was dry, I trimmed away the excess felt.

I love paper tape!

Next
it was time to lay out the grid on the board. I made a mark with pencil along
the edge at the 2” and 4” measurement for each side of the board. I took my
paper tape and connected the lines on opposing sides until I had a grid. I
pressed the paper tape down firmly to stick to the painted surface.

Usually I am horrible at staying in the lines

To
finish the board, I added Glossy Accents all over the painted surface and
smoothed it out with my index finger, making sure the tape was covered. I set
it aside and when it was dry, I trimmed off the excess paper tape.

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I am a horror writer with a love of all things zombie, vampire, or ghost. I haven't hit the "Big Time" yet but I'm getting closer with each story published. If I'm not writing, I'm probably making something out of beads, polymer clay, or paper mache. Cupcakes are my weapon of choice.